Sometimes, comparison is good. It momentarily lures me in to do something the world is telling me I should do, but I quickly ...
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The Computer That Received Messages from 1541
In 1984, a teacher in the village of Dodleston found messages on his offline computer—signed by someone claiming to live in the same house in 1541. What started as a suspected prank became one of the ...
As one Ivy League professor recently confessed at our mutual friend's get-together: "The handwriting is really, really, ...
From sunglasses to ketchup, zippers to lip balm, ordinary objects carry epic stories that span centuries. In ‘The History of Every Thing,’ we dig into the surprising science, curious origins, and ...
The milestone makes machine-learning trailblazer Yoshua Bengio the most cited researcher on Google Scholar. Computer ...
For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In practice, that ...
Caleb Dixon, Hashaam Sheikh, and Javi Guerr from Texas won the junior prize for their group documentary, “The Destroyer of ...
Welcome to the final article in our three-part series on the history of the Internet. If you haven’t already, catch up with part one and part two. As a refresher, here’s the story so far: The ARPANET ...
In a 1987 article in the Times Book Review, Robert Solow, a Nobel-winning economist at M.I.T., commented, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Despite massive ...
The oldest active player in MLB will have to soon find another team to continue his career. The 45-year-old Hill had a short stint with the Royals after signing a minor league contract with the team ...
The UK government is on a mission to loosen the grip that legacy IT suppliers have on public sector IT budgets, amid concerns about how police forces, NHS trusts and local councils are wedded to ...
Radio Shack, despite being gone for a number of years, is still in our cultural consciousness. But do you know Tandy? And did you ever wonder how a leather company that started in 1919 became, briefly ...
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